up close

adverb or adjective

: at close range

Examples of up close in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The birds can be found meeting guests up close before the game and are sometimes on the field for the national anthem. — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

Fanatics Fest is the company’s big bet on experiential entertainment, letting fans see superstars like James, Brady, Bieber, Jalen Brunson and John Cena up close and personal. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

See artifacts up close at museums, attend discussions among experts or catch a musical about the unity that followed the tragedy. — Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2026

Seeing a supermassive black hole up close is a spectacular, if unsettling, thought, but that’s not the only oddity to be seen from S301. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1653, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for up close

• arkose
• engross
• faroese
• fructose
• fucose
• gatos
• glucose
• jocose
• morose
• plateaus
• spinose
• vadose